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Soraya M. Deen

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From Sri Lanka to Gaza: What Terror Taught Me About Peace and the Lie of Liberation

From Sri Lanka to Gaza: What Terror Taught Me About Peace and the Lie of Liberation

I come from Sri Lanka—a country that endured nearly thirty years of brutal conflict with the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam. The LTTE claimed to...

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Soraya M. Deen

The Fourth Place: From Prayer to Power: A Call to Synagogues

The Fourth Place: From Prayer to Power: The Urgent Case for Community Organizing in  Synagogues In a time of rising antisemitism and hatred for...

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How Diaspora Activism Failed Palestinians Once Again

When Protest Loses Its Moral Center: How Diaspora Activism Failed the Palestinians once again. America’s most successful movements for justice were...

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A Call to Nerdeen Kiswani: Speak Peace in Conflict

We begin with a principle that must never be compromised: we unequivocally condemn the attempt on your life. No cause, no grievance, no moment of...

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A Wake-Up Call from Iran to the Muslim World

I write this from a religious freedom conference convened by Empower Women Media, led by Iranian-American advocate Shirin Taber and Lebanese-American...

04.03.2026 60

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Modi, South Asia: And the anesthetized ‘Palestinian Cause’

Modi’s Visit to Israel — an appeal to the Global South to rethink the anesthetized “Palestinian Cause.” As a Muslim Sri Lankan American, I...

27.02.2026 60

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Is Europe’s Antisemitism Fueled by Al Jazeera?

I have just concluded a trip across several major European cities. What I witnessed disturbed me deeply. In home after home, the television was tuned...

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To Arab Israeli Women….

To the Arab citizens of Israel, For a while now, I have been asking: where are the Arab Israelis? On a recent visit to Israel, I saw something that...

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Can Gurudev mediate the Hamas-Israeli Conflict?

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Soraya M. Deen